As Japan gears up to mine its extended continental shelf, serious questions remain about whether international regulators will be ready. The deep seabed contains significant stores of minerals such as ...

A new study reveals that 59,000 kilometers, or nearly 37,000 miles, of tropical rivers have been damaged by mining, based on 7 million measurements taken from satellite images spanning four decades.

An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...

A new study says the Yukon’s mining approval processes could have dire consequences for caribou on unceded Kaska territory.